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Breeding Dispersal by Birds in a Dynamic Urban Ecosystem
Changes in land cover during urbanization profoundly affect the diversity of bird communities, but the demographic mechanisms affecting diversity are poorly known. We advance such understanding by documenting how urbanization influences breeding dispersal—the annual movement of territorial adults—of...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5193330/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28030559 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0167829 |
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author | Marzluff, John M. DeLap, Jack H. Oleyar, M. David Whittaker, Kara A. Gardner, Beth |
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description | Changes in land cover during urbanization profoundly affect the diversity of bird communities, but the demographic mechanisms affecting diversity are poorly known. We advance such understanding by documenting how urbanization influences breeding dispersal—the annual movement of territorial adults—of six songbird species in the Seattle, WA, USA metropolitan area. We color-banded adults and mapped the centers of their annual breeding activities from 2000–2010 to obtain 504 consecutive movements by 337 adults. By comparing movements, annual reproduction, and mate fidelity among 10 developed, 5 reserved, and 11 changing (areas cleared and developed during our study) landscapes, we determined that adaptive breeding dispersal of sensitive forest species (Swainson’s Thrush and Pacific wren), which involves shifting territory and mate after reproductive failure, was constrained by development. In changing lands, sensitive forest specialists dispersed from active development to nearby forested areas, but in so doing suffered low annual reproduction. Species tolerant of suburban lands (song sparrow, spotted towhee, dark-eyed junco, and Bewick’s wren) dispersed adaptively in changing landscapes. Site fidelity ranged from 0% (Pacific wren in changing landscape) to 83% (Bewick’s wren in forest reserve). Mate fidelity ranged from 25% (dark-eyed junco) to 100% (Bewick’s wren). Variation in fidelity to mate and territory was consistent with theories positing an influence of territory quality, asynchronous return from migration, prior productivity, and reproductive benefits of retaining a familiar territory. Costly breeding dispersal, as well as reduced reproductive success and lowered survival cause some birds to decline in the face of urbanization. In contrast, the ability of species that utilize edges and early successional habitats to breed successfully, disperse to improve reproductive success after failure, and survive throughout the urban ecosystem enables them to maintain or increase population size. |
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spelling | pubmed-51933302017-01-19 Breeding Dispersal by Birds in a Dynamic Urban Ecosystem Marzluff, John M. DeLap, Jack H. Oleyar, M. David Whittaker, Kara A. Gardner, Beth PLoS One Research Article Changes in land cover during urbanization profoundly affect the diversity of bird communities, but the demographic mechanisms affecting diversity are poorly known. We advance such understanding by documenting how urbanization influences breeding dispersal—the annual movement of territorial adults—of six songbird species in the Seattle, WA, USA metropolitan area. We color-banded adults and mapped the centers of their annual breeding activities from 2000–2010 to obtain 504 consecutive movements by 337 adults. By comparing movements, annual reproduction, and mate fidelity among 10 developed, 5 reserved, and 11 changing (areas cleared and developed during our study) landscapes, we determined that adaptive breeding dispersal of sensitive forest species (Swainson’s Thrush and Pacific wren), which involves shifting territory and mate after reproductive failure, was constrained by development. In changing lands, sensitive forest specialists dispersed from active development to nearby forested areas, but in so doing suffered low annual reproduction. Species tolerant of suburban lands (song sparrow, spotted towhee, dark-eyed junco, and Bewick’s wren) dispersed adaptively in changing landscapes. Site fidelity ranged from 0% (Pacific wren in changing landscape) to 83% (Bewick’s wren in forest reserve). Mate fidelity ranged from 25% (dark-eyed junco) to 100% (Bewick’s wren). Variation in fidelity to mate and territory was consistent with theories positing an influence of territory quality, asynchronous return from migration, prior productivity, and reproductive benefits of retaining a familiar territory. Costly breeding dispersal, as well as reduced reproductive success and lowered survival cause some birds to decline in the face of urbanization. In contrast, the ability of species that utilize edges and early successional habitats to breed successfully, disperse to improve reproductive success after failure, and survive throughout the urban ecosystem enables them to maintain or increase population size. Public Library of Science 2016-12-28 /pmc/articles/PMC5193330/ /pubmed/28030559 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0167829 Text en © 2016 Marzluff et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Marzluff, John M. DeLap, Jack H. Oleyar, M. David Whittaker, Kara A. Gardner, Beth Breeding Dispersal by Birds in a Dynamic Urban Ecosystem |
title | Breeding Dispersal by Birds in a Dynamic Urban Ecosystem |
title_full | Breeding Dispersal by Birds in a Dynamic Urban Ecosystem |
title_fullStr | Breeding Dispersal by Birds in a Dynamic Urban Ecosystem |
title_full_unstemmed | Breeding Dispersal by Birds in a Dynamic Urban Ecosystem |
title_short | Breeding Dispersal by Birds in a Dynamic Urban Ecosystem |
title_sort | breeding dispersal by birds in a dynamic urban ecosystem |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5193330/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28030559 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0167829 |
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